Known by the nickname Miss Unsinkable, Violet Constance Jessup survived the sinking of the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision aboard the Olympic. This episode moves beyond that catchy label to explore an original biographical narrative about duty, willpower, and a life spent in a high-stakes wrestling match with the sea.

We look at the underlying mechanisms of her resilience, examining how her early upbringing and socioeconomic reality forged a person capable of walking away from the most catastrophic shipwrecks of the 20th century and then willingly going back to work.

• Her 1887 birth in the Argentine Pampas to Irish immigrant sheep farmers, her childhood tuberculosis recovery, and the heavy caregiving role she carried as the eldest of nine.
• Workplace sexism that forced her to dress down to secure grueling stewardess ...